Grade 8 - Vocabulary Lesson 10

adj. difficult or impossible to understand

syn: inexplicable; perplexing

(ant: clear; understandable)

• epic

• didactic

• incomprehensible

• residual

adj. eager to eat; greedily hungry. syn: ravenous; rapacious

(ant: satiated; satisfied; sated)

2. having an insatiable appetite for a thing or activity

syn: avid

• stoic

• ocular

• gruff

• voracious

n. a long, angry speech

syn: diatribe; rant; harangue; screed

(ant: panegyric; encomium)

• tirade

• quiver

• calliope

• amendment

adj. intended to instruct or guide

syn: educational; edifying

• didactic

• gruff

• incomprehensible

• epic

adj. seemingly indifferent to pain, grief, or pleasure

syn: stolid; impassive

(ant: emotional; passionate)

• didactic

• voracious

• residual

• stoic

• palatable

adj. left over, as after the end of a process.

syn: remaining; lingering

• epic

• didactic

• ocular

• palatable

• residual

adj. 1. stern and blunt in manner syn: curt; brusque

(ant: friendly; sociable)

1. harsh-sounding; hoarse syn: rasping; gravely (ant: melodious)

• voracious

• epic

• gruff

• incomprehensible

• ocular

v. to tremble rapidly syn: shudder; shiver; shake

n. a shaky or trembling motion syn: tremor; shudder

1. a case for holding arrows

• quiver

• lurch

• calliope

• amendment

• tirade

v. 1. to move slowly and unsteadily syn: stagger; stumble

(ant: glide)

1. to move suddenly syn: lunge; pitch

• alleviate

• bludgeon

• quiver

• lurch

n. the power to see things that are invisible to the senses

• clairvoyance

• grit

• amendment

• epic

• tirade